topic Re: BASH is not there in Operating System - HP-UX

BASH is not there

shruti507 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:05:45 GMT

Hi

when i type bash, bash prompt doesnt come, i dont know why, but how can i bring bash.

Thanks

Re: BASH is not there

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:13:40 GMT

Precisely what error message do you see and under what shell are you executing "bash"? It sounds as though the bash executable is not in your PATH --- which is probably a very good thing. The POSIX shell on HP-UX is a modern, well-behaved shell. Whatever you do, do not make bash root's shell.

Re: BASH is not there

Steven Schweda — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:24:20 GMT

> [...] bash prompt doesnt come [...]

What _does_ happen? What does this do?:

type bash

> [...] how can i bring bash.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

Re: BASH is not there

Asif Sharif — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:42:19 GMT

Hi,

Have you installed bash in your system? if not then download a copy and install it.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-3.2/

You need to install Run-time dependencies: "gettext libiconv termcap" also.

Before installing the Bash shell see the Stephenson recommendation.

Regards,
Asif Sharif

Re: BASH is not there

shruti507 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:35:03 GMT

Hi,
Using HPUX -11.1, with POSIX shell.

How i will install run-time dependencies: "gettext libiconv termcap" .

Plz tell me about Stephenson recommendation.

Regards,
Asif Sharif

Re: BASH is not there

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:42:44 GMT

Hi,

You can download all these from http://hpux.connect.org.uk. Just search for bash and you will get everything you want.

-Arun

Re: BASH is not there

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:52:59 GMT

Hi:

> Plz tell me about Stephenson recommendation.

What Clay is letting you know about *NOT* changing root's shell is this:

During startup, when '/usr' isn't mounted, and root runs a shell, there is no way for shells with dynamically linked libraries that live in '/usr' to run. This is the reason root's shell must *always* remain '/sbin/sh'. The '/sbin/sh' shell uses a statically linked libraries independent of '/usr'. If you change the default shell in '/etc/passwd' for the root account you will find yourself with a server that will not startup after a reboot!

The Posix shell used by HP-UX is available with static libraries as '/sbin/sh'. To reduce the memory footprint for normal users, a shared library implementation exists as '/usr/bin/sh'.

This does not prevent you from using a Bash shell, Simply do *not* modify root's default shell setting in '/etc/passwd' nor use anything other than '/sbin/sh' as the script interpreter in any startup scripts.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: BASH is not there

shruti507 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:02:50 GMT

Thanks

When i was installing bash software i got erroe msg:
The dependencies for fileset "bash.bash-RUN, r=3.2" cant be resolved.

Re: BASH is not there

RobinKing — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:17:51 GMT

Did you download all the dependencies listed on http://hpux.connect.org.uk?

Build dependencies are: gettext, libiconv, make and termcap